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It's just me and my queued posts against the world
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Foul beast ate that adventurer whole, RIP
oh fuck off
someone edited the Artemis II mission to “We Know The Way” from the Moana soundtrack and that was kind of my last straw. I broke down sobbing. We humans have gone from using the stars to navigate the seas, to navigating through the stars and returning by landing in the seas. Humanity is so beautiful when we work together like this. We are voyagers. We were always meant to explore the beautiful world we were given.
(edit) link to the edit in the comments!
this has been discussed before but reducing female characters to the girlboss braincell holder in the name of combating misogyny in fandom is ironically also a form of misogyny
people love love loooove to go on and on and on about whiteguy #135336843’s internal torment and the nuances of his writing and then when it comes time to talk about women it’s all um actually she can do no wrong and holds the braincell and babysits the boys like a mother hashtag feminism. i hope you fucking blow up
I think the thing about alternatives to the Ottawa plan is like. Ilya has depression. Ilya has depression from the first page of the first novel. There is no plan that prevents Ilya from having depression. Ilya's nervous system is wired wrong. Ilya wants to fuck and get drunk and be a visitor in his own life from minute one. Ilya can't be saved. He's fucking got the girl from the ring hunting him down and his depression is gonna haunt him in Boston it's gonna haunt him in Montreal it's gonna haunt him in New York City. He's doomed by the narrative but also he's saved by the narrative because Ilya is gonna be alright. The city doesn't really matter
this genuinely has got to be one of the most depressing passages in the books for me, like that guy’s life is just so miserable and empty and falling in love with shane is shining the harshest spotlight on it. literally sitting around thinking that he has no real friends and the cars are boring and casual sex lost its appeal and he wishes his man could be there with him because everything else feels hollow and meaningless :(
Off the coast of Australia Macroctopus caught the shark, wrapped all its tentacles around it and soon released it. Most likely, he scraped all the parasites off her.
The octopus
this is how sharks stay smooth
Bro the cuttlefish and everything else checkin it ou
the best part is the rapidly growing crowd of onlooker fish and squids hoping that this event will end in a festive shower of delicious shark guts (it did not. woe to the peanut gallery)
hate how they forced bugs bunny into anti-weed propaganda in the 90s, as if bugs bunny wouldn’t love smoking weed
To be perfectly fair, bugs bunny would also love taking money for starring in anti-weed propaganda and then using said money to buy weed
bugs bunny is not real
kirk: spock will be acting captain in my absence. i trust him with my life and expect you all to do the same. *leaves bridge*
spock [hopping over the railing to follow kirk]: sulu's in charge
Lemme just be insane for a bit and tell you some of the little TPE things i see for Hollanov because they are so clear in my mind's eye:
Any time they're out for dinner, Ilya orders for him. Usually something that fits Shane's diet but sometimes he holds Shane to cheat days, ordering something outside of his comfort zone which Shane dutifully eats. He doesn't even feel guilty for it, after all, it wasn't his call.
Whenever they're going somewhere other than the rink or the gym, Ilya will pick out Shane's outfit and lay it out on the bed while he's in the shower.
Ilya loves buying Shane cologne and will select which scent he wants him to wear, carefully spritzing it on him in an act that feels so intimate and so full of ownership that it never fails to get Shane hard.
Ilya will decide when Shane comes out with the team to the bar after games and whether he will be drinking that night. Again, this helps ease Shane's anxieties about drinking. Ilya would never compromise his playing and if he's decided that Shane should have a few drinks then that's what he'll do.
The have an unspoken signal where, if Shane's social battery is running low, he'll place his hand on Ilya's arm and silently look at him with unguarded eyes. Ilya will take in how Shane's looking and decide whether he can take more or whether they leave immediately, either gathering their things and making their excuses as if Ilya's the one who's had enough or leaning in and giving Shane an exact time frame of how long he wants him to stick it out, whispering it in his ear like a filthy promise. "Forty minutes."
Ilya will suggest that Shane schedule time with his friends when he feels it's been too long. They both know this isn't a suggestion.
Shane never comes without Ilya's permission. If he does there are consequences.
On occasion, Ilya will stop Shane from eating something or drinking his morning smoothie. The first time he did this, Shane watched confused as Ilya told him, "not yet," when he raised his spoon to his morning oatmeal and then lost all cognitive ability as he watched Ilya get his cock out and jack off into his food, before saying "eat up," and fully walking away. It never fails to get Shane worked up to the point he thinks he may accidentally come untouched.
Shane has to do his yoga with a plug in because Ilya will need to fuck him, quite urgently, immediately after.
A couple of weeks into that routine he comes up behind Shane when he's in downward dog and says "if you drop position I leave" before pulling down his shorts, removing the plug and sliding in. After that, Shane never knows whether he'll make it through his entire routine before Ilya gives in.
Free use is obviously part of this and most days Ilya will interrupt Shane in the middle of some task or other because he's decided he needs to have him in some way. Sometimes Ilya wants him to stop whatever he's doing and will then tell him to get back to it when he's finished. Other times he expects Shane to keep his task up throughout, for example making sure their dinner doesn't burn just because Ilya urgently needs to get off in his ass. Rarely does he allow Shane to get off during these interruptions.
The Montreal Metros, otherwise known as Shane Hollander and The Other Pointless Cunts
Roselana but make it PWHL
op how does it feel to have the gift of prophecy
Girlfriends or whatever
what does turkish delight taste like and is it worth the events that occurred in chronicle of narnia: the lion the witch and the wardrobe
So the first thing you must understand is that there are two basic types of Turkish delight. The first kind is what most people are familiar with, which are these gelatinous cubes covered in powdered sugar. They are, by most metrics, an acquired taste:
This is usually the stuff people try and say, “Yeah, I don’t get it, Edmund.” But if you go to a good Turkish confectioner (or just any of the bazillion stores that sell it in the Istanbul markets) you’ll see a second kind of Turkish delight, in a rolled shape:
This is the good stuff. The sell-your-soul-and-your-family stuff. It’s nutty and chewy and creamy and comes in all sorts of flavors, and I highly recommend it to anyone. (Especially hazelnut. It’s not a traditional flavor but I’m convinced the White Witch dipped into the future to get some for Edmund, it is that delicious.)
The second thing you need to understand is that the turkish delight was laced with mind-control drugs.
The third thing you need to understand is Edmond was living under WII sugar rationing
Last survivor of an extinct alien civilisation who regards this as a personal victory.
Last survivor of an extinct alien civilisation who's just as surprised as you are.
Last survivor of an extinct alien civilisation who's mad about being left out.
Last survivor of an extinct alien civilisation who tells a different story about how it happened each time they're asked.
Last survivor of an extinct alien civilisation who, in their unguarded moments, admits it's probably for the best.
Last survivor of an extinct alien civilisation who claims the others are "just resting".
Last survivor of an extinct alien civilisation who insists it's not their fault.
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was reading the list, then still somehow surprised by the fact that this was already reblogged with "Doctor Who".
Learning that a story originated as a fanfiction before having its serial numbers filed off... the filing jobs can obviously vary in quality a lot, but I have found that learning this info often explains something (neutral statement) about the story / world choices that was tickling my brain somehow. The element I've been thinking about recently are the friendships within the former fanfiction story.
Like, it's not weird for wholly original romance novels to have otherwise disposable friend characters who act as author mouthpieces at crucial points in the story. (It's also not uncommon for romance novel characters to have NO close friends or family, in my experience, which is a different thing.) Former fanfics do not even slightly have a monopoly on, "Hey, what's up with this weird friend character? They seem a little out-of-place here? Also seems like you're maybe under-utilizing the weird, comedic relief friend, tbh; they could be doing more in this story."
But with former fanfics, sometimes you get the lightbulb moment of: "Ohhhhh, this was a former Stucky fanfic and this female best friend is Like That (in a same way that every character is probably also a little bit Like That) because she originated as AU Natasha Romanoff before having the serial numbers filed off! I get it now."
See, in fanfiction as literature, it's pretty much wholly accepted that a character's role in a story can exclusively be... Being That Character in this AU. Which isn't a bad thing. It's just a thing. It's very often fun.
Audience familiarity with (and affection for) the characters and their relationships to one another can be one of fanfiction's strengths re: storytelling. You can play with a lot of reader expectations this way.
Anyway, if I was reading a Coffee Shop AU Star Wars Reylo fanfiction (you could basically use this example fic to ward me personally off like garlic against a vampire, tbh, but let's pretend)... even if Finn had nothing to do as a character in this story besides be Rey's coworker at the coffee shop, I would be even more suspicious and dismayed if Finn was completely missing. We EXPECT to see at least briefly all of the major members of a cast in an AU fanfic of certain length, barring unusual circumstances.
Even if he is almost completely irrelevant to the meet-cute at hand, I WANT to know where Chewbacca is in this AU! I want to enjoy a little chuckle when, idk, C-3PO is turned into a high-strung, middle-aged office guy with either a short, non-English-speaking husband or a Border Collie-Corgi mix dog named Artoo that runs his entire life. It's delightful to see the characters I know and love in the background!
But when you file the serial numbers off of AU fanfiction, a character's role in a story can no longer be Being That Character. Now, you potentially have a bunch of story elements that conflict slightly or conflict very seriously. Now, you may have additional characters whose presence is no longer perfectly explained by the fact that you are expected to include all the Avengers in your MCU fanfic.
Now, Not-Chewbacca's quirks cannot be explained away by him Being Chewbacca. And suddenly, readers are like, "Hey, kind of weird throwaway detail for Not-Kylo's dad to be a former drug runner who lives in a van with an old, foreign war vet! Is that going to be relevant later???" Once you cut the fanfiction strings, your new story may feel riddled with inconsistencies and missed opportunities. Why are these characters here if they're 1) not contributing to the plot, 2) not contributing to character ans relationship development, and 3) not even really contributing tonally (humor, angst, fluff) to the story?
I'm sticking to talking about friendships and background characters here, because it's what I've been thinking about lately, though you could obviously go on forever taking about all the many nuances of what filing the serial numbers off does to a story and the art of adaptation. I just had a "Oh! It's NAT! Hi, Black Widow! Sorry this story made you kind of boring, Nat!" moment recently.
There's also the argument I've seen that if you can file the serial numbers off (without then being able to still go "Hi, Nat, sorry about this") then it wasn't very accurate characterisation (or possibly even good fanfic, but that's an argument with a much deeper rabbit hole).